The leaders of Turkey, Russia, France, and Germany held a summit on October 27 in Istanbul to discuss security and political issues in Syria.
U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton on October 23 laid flowers at the site close to the Kremlin wall where Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and one of President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critics was shot down not far from the Kremlin wall. (Reuters)
A firefighter died while trying to put out a blaze at a factory in southern Russia's Vladikavkaz city on October 21. (Reuters)
Afghans unable to vote in Saturday's (October 20) parliamentary elections after hundreds of polling stations failed to open were given another chance to cast their ballot on Sunday after voting times were extended despite security threats and warnings of fraud. (Reuters)
U.S. President Donald Trump said he is going to terminate an arms control treaty known as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) after he said Russia had violated it. Trump was speaking to journalists in Nevada on October 20. (Reuters)
When Afghans vote for a new parliament on October 20, they will have an unprecedented number of women on the ballot. The road to politics in this conservative country has been bumpy but some sense a change.
Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced condolences for the victims of an attack on a college in Crimea, saying it was clearly a crime and that the results of investigations would be made public. He was speaking after talks in Sochi with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Anna Veselovskaya gave up her apartment in Simferopol, Crimea, to buy land where she can keep dozens of sick, injured, or abandoned cats and dogs and nurse them back to health.
Hundreds of relatives, friends, and colleagues attended the funeral of slain Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova on October 12 in her native town of Ruse.
A joint Russian-U.S. space mission ended with an emergency landing as a booster on its Soyuz rocket failed soon after liftoff.
Amateur video shows a night sky lit with fire and explosions detonating at a rate of two to three a second that hit a Ukrainian Defence Ministry ammunition depot on October 9 about 180 east of Kyiv. (Reuters)
Marathon sit-in rally in Magas, the capital of Ingushetia, entered the third day on October 6. Demonstrators protest against a land swap deal between Ingushetia and neighboring Chechnya made public only once it had already been approved by the leaders of both Russian republics. (Reuters)
Romanians cast their votes on October 6 in a two-day referendum on whether to change the constitutional definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman, aimed at preventing same sex partnerships from ever being legal in one of the few EU states to still ban them. (AP, Reuters)
France paid a national homage to the late singer and actor Charles Aznavour – a Frenchman of Armenian descent – in Paris on October 5, following his passing earlier this month at the age of 94. (Reuters, AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has lashed out at former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, calling him a "scumbag" and "traitor to his homeland."
Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has cast his ballot in the country's referendum over its possible name change.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has called the recently strengthened U.S. sanctions on his country "a kind of economic terrorism."
U.S. President Donald Trump warned Germany not to become dependent on Russian energy. Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 25, Trump praised Poland for developing alternative sources.
Pope Francis has laid flowers at the monument to Latvian independence in Riga, on the second leg of a Baltic regional tour.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has given the green light for Russia to return to global sports competitions after nearly three years of suspension for a state-supported doping program, but under "strict conditions."
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